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CHIPS 

and 

LITTLE CHIPS 

By 

RUTH and HARROP A. FREEMAN 

Pictures By 

ELDRED M. SMITH 


JUNIOR PRESS BOOKS 

albert¥whitman 

4 CO 

CHICAGO 

1939 

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Copyright, 1939, by 
ALBERT WHITMAN & COMPANY 


MAY 29 1939 


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129653 


Printed in the U.S.A. 


CHIPS AND LITTLE CHIPS 


W E are going to have a new house, Son. Chips, the 
carpenter, is going to build it. Maybe you would 
like to watch him. Then you will see just how a 
house is built.’’ 

“It would be lots of fun to watch him. But why is he 
called Chips, Father?” 

“He used to be the carpenter on a ship. A ship’s 
carpenter is always called Chips. He doesn’t work on the 
ship any more, but everyone still calls him Chips.” 

“I think that is a nice name. May I call him Chips?” 
“Yes, you may. Look, here he comes now.” 

The little boy’s father introduced the carpenter. The 
two became good friends right away. 

“I wish I had a name like yours, Chips,” said the 
little boy. 


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“That is easy,” said Chips. “We will call you Little 
Chips. You can be a carpenter, too. You can watch me 
in the mornings and then in the afternoons you can work 
on your playhouse.” 


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“Oh, that will be fun,” said Little Chips. “I will wear 
my overalls when I work, just like a real carpenter, and I 
will build a real playhouse.” 


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Chips showed Little Chips all the different tools that 
he used. Chips carried his tools in a large, strong chest. 
There was a special place for each tool. 


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Chips gave Little Chips a hammer and a box full of 
nails. There were large nails and small nails and middle- 
sized nails. A carpenter uses all kinds of nails in building 
a house. Little Chips looked through the box to see how 
many kinds of nails it contained. 


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“This is the plan of the house that I am going to build,” 
said Chips. “It shows just how large each room is to be. 
A carpenter must have a plan before he can start his 
work.” 

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Little Chips wanted a plan for his playhouse, so Chips 
drew one for him. This plan showed a living room and a 
dining room and a kitchen. It showed the exact size of 
each room. It also showed where each window should be 
built. The heavy black lines in the plan indicated the 
walls, and the lighter lines indicated the windows. 

Little Chips thought this was a fine plan. He studied 
it carefully for a long time. 


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Chips marked the size of the house on the ground. He 
pounded a number of stakes into the ground and then 
connected them with a heavy string. Now he knew just 
where to build the house. 


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Little Chips marked the size of his playhouse. It was 
such a little house that he only needed four stakes. He 
pounded them into the ground and connected them with 
a heavy string. Then he began to measure the boards. 


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Before Chips could really start his work, a big hole had 
to be dug in order to make the basement under the house. 
Two strong horses dug the hole by pulling a big scoop. 
A man held the scoop and guided the horses. When the 
scoop became full of earth, the man emptied it on the 
ground just outside the hole. He knew just where to dig 
the hole because Chips had marked the size of the house 
with stakes and a heavy string. 







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Little Chips decided that he would dig a hole, too. He 
used his little play steam shovel and he piled the dirt up 
on the side. 


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After the hole had been dug, the floor and walls of the 
basement were made out of concrete. The basement wall 
rose about ten inches above the level of the ground. This 
gave a firm foundation for the joists. These were strong 
boards that supported the floor of the house. They 
reached from one side of the basement wall to the other. 
Chips had cut each board just the right length. 


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When Little Chips had dug the hole for his playhouse, 
he began cutting some boards. He had already measured 
each one and had made a pencil mark at the place where 
it must be cut. Then he sawed the boards exactly on the 
pencil marks. He put each board on a box and kneeled on 
it, just as Chips had done. 

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After the joists had all been nailed down, they were 
covered with wide, thin boards. These made the floor. 
Each board was fitted tightly to the board next to it. 
There must not be any cracks in the floor! Little Chips 
watched Chips and his helper as they fastened the floor 
boards with nails. It looked very easy to him. 

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Little Chips decided that he would nail some boards 
together. He took two boards from an old box. Then he 
took a medium-sized nail and started to pound. But he 
found that it wasn’t so easy as it looked. Oops! the 
hammer slipped. Little Chips almost mashed his finger. 
He kept on pounding and pounding and pounding. Finally 
he got the nail through the boards. 

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Chips and his helper built the frame of the house of 
strong boards. Each board was set just a certain distance 
from the one next to it. These boards were called uprights. 
“They are like the bones of your body,” said Chips. “They 
give the house its proper shape.” 


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Little Chips used strong boards to make the frame of 
his playhouse. He had first measured each board and 
marked it with a pencil. Then he had sawed each board 
so that it was the proper length. All the boards had to be 
exactly the same size. When they were all cut, he set 
them firmly in the ground. He wanted to have a good, 
strong playhouse, so he had to have a good, strong frame 
for it. 


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When all the uprights had been put in place and the 
frame of the house was completed, long boards were 
nailed on the outside. Each board was nailed to the 
uprights. If the boards were too long, they were sawed 
off after they had been nailed in place. 


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Little Chips covered the frame of his playhouse with 
boards. He nailed each board tightly to the frame, leaving 
spaces for the door and windows. If a board was too long, 
he sawed it so that it was just the right length. When he 
nailed the boards this time, the hammer didn’t slip once. 
Little Chips was becoming a good carpenter. He had 
learned to hit the nail and not his finger. 


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When the frame of the house had been covered with 
boards, Chips laid heavy paper on them. “This paper will 
help to keep the house warm. The weather boards or 
outside boards are nailed over the paper,” said Chips. 
Little Chips helped him to put the paper on. 


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Little Chips got a roll of heavy tar paper to use on his 
playhouse. A playhouse does not need weather boards. 
The paper had long lines that went around and short lines 
that went up and down. He carefully nailed the paper on 
the outside of the playhouse. Chips had shown him how 
to do it. This paper would help to keep his playhouse 
warm. It also made it look very pretty. When Little Chips 
had put the paper all around the house, he cut places in 
the paper for the windows and the door. 


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Chips and his helper climbed up on high ladders to 
put a roof on the house. The roof was one of the most 
important parts of the whole house. The shingles had to 
be put on carefully and made to fit very tightly, so that 
there would not be a leak in the roof. 


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Little Chips put a roof on his playhouse. He made the 
roof of boards instead of shingles. Each board was nailed 
close to the one next to it, so that the roof would not leak. 
Little Chips knew that a house must have a good roof. 
“This roof will shed water like an umbrella,” he said when 
he had finished. 


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The outside of the house was finished now. Chips and 
his helper had put in doors and windows. Then the 
painters had put on two coats of paint. The paint made 
the house look very pretty. Little Chips liked his new 
home. 


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Chips had said, “You must always keep your tools sharp 
and clean and dry.” 

So Little Chips carefully wiped off his saw and his 
hammer and his square. He wanted to keep all his tools 
in good condition. He was through using them to-day, 
but before he put them away he made sure that they 
were clean and dry. The tools would soon get rusty if they 
were not kept dry. 


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While Chips and his helper were finishing the outside 
of the house, other workers were busy on the inside. The 
masons plastered the walls and the plumbers put in the 
bathtub and sink. The electricians put in wires for the 
electric lights. 


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After Little Chips had finished the roof and the chimney, 
he put in the door and windows for his playhouse. Then 
it was all done. He sat down on the grass and looked at it. 
“Isn’t it a fine playhouse?” he asked. Everyone who saw 
it thought it was a fine playhouse. 


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When Chips and his helper and all the other workers 
had finished, the big house looked like this. Little Chips 
thought it was the most beautiful house he had ever seen. 


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When Little Chips had finished building his playhouse, 
he made a path of large flat stones leading up to the door. 
He set the stones down in the ground a little bit so that 
they would stay in place. Then the playhouse looked like 
this. 


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“You have learned lots of things about building, Little 
Chips,” said Chips when they had both finished their work. 
“There is one thing that you must never forget. Always 
keep your tools clean and sharp, and always do the best 
job you can.” 


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